I work with Germans, believe me, you will get another understanding of commas (and capital letters). Point is, you need to know what you're doing with any punctuation. There are plenty of situations where a semicolon is more appropriate than a full-stop.

Teachers these days use green pen because itâ(TM)s less confrontational. Youâ(TM)re clearly traumatised! No idea what their problem was, but semicolons are very useful.

What youâ(TM)re missing is monospaced text and fixed line lengths that are longer than the mobile view by a few words on their own line and annoyingly too short for a computer display. The holy warriors of the Usenet will then be very happy.

Tokenization seems to mean taking an asset with value, creating a fake representation of it, selling that to someone in exchange for valuable money, and then laughing all the way to the bank. In the case of a bank doing this, the only difference seems to be that there is not as much laughing involved, because they are already at the bank. And in the case of a bank doing this with "stable" coins (that aren't actually stable), they're also skipping the "asset with value" step.

I do not like this Sam-I-am, I do not like the JVM.

It's going to collide with their bilateral agreement with the EU that provides freedom of movement between Switzerland and the EU. Will be interesting to see how that works out.

So the great monocultured unwashed masses will be ruled by diverse or wealthy foreigners? What could possibly go wrong?

How is this not hilarious? I mean I know someone who's favorite Christmas Greeting is "Merry Bah-Humbug." But Still !!!

ROTFLMAO (BBQ)

$40 in 1995 is equivalent to over $85 today after adjusting for inflation.

Seconded on the Tapo line. I got a Tapo C120 earlier this year and they are surprisingly cheap (currently $28 at B&H) and fairly easy to work with. I found that I needed to initially connect it to their cloud service to get their app working with it, but once that worked, I removed its ability to phone home by blocking the MAC address from the internet on my router. I can still connect to it with RTSP and stream with VLC, replay video with their app, etc. with no need for internet connectivity. Just be aware that if it can't connect to an NTP server that the timestamp in the video will be off... but you can disable the timestamp. It also logs decent resolution video and low bitrate audio to microSD which is handy. I get about two weeks of archived 24/7 footage with a 256 GB card. One drawback is that it is limited to using 2.4 GHz WiFi, which I find to have more interference than 5 GHz in my location. Everyone's situation is different in that regard though.

You learn a lot of other new things about life and what you really believe in by meeting new people with different ideas or participating in activities you never had an opportunity to previously. There's more to university than you what you get in the lecture hall or library (or the modern equivalent). Probably more so if you don't do it from your parent's basement!

Yes, I totally agree, you have to pick a reasonable length of time for depreciation. Three years is clearly too short for a lot of devices now, although I wouldn't suggest 18 years is appropriate either!

Indeed. I learnt recently that one of our GitLab VM hosts for Linux build runners is is hardware from 2012. The dev team discovered this when a vendor sent us an updated library that dropped SSE4.2 support and required AVX2, causing our smoke tests to fail and thus fail the builds. Why throw away hardware that is still working and performant?

The baseline profile of MPEG-5 Essential Video Coding (EVC) (ISO/IEC 23094-1) is supposed to be the modern MPEG codec that only uses tools made public 20 years ago or have been declared royalty free. It hasn't really gathered traction though either because there's not enough incentive for the stakeholders or because nobody wants to invest in adding another codec to their pipeline that doesn't improve enough beyond HEVC.

Not regardless of any size. An old XDCAM will produce MPEG-2 streams that look better than anything streaming from Amazon Video.